Introducing Bankscope

Bankscope contains information on 30,000 banks from around the world. You can use it to research individual banks and find banks with specific profiles and analyse them. Bankscope has up to 16 years of detailed accounts for each bank. The information includes:

· Detailed financials - Interim data
· Ratings, and rating reports
· Country risk and country finance reports
· Stock data for listed banks
· Directors and contacts
· Economic country profiles and outlooks
· Business and related news
· M&A deals and rumours

Bankscope can be used on and off-campus via the e-library using your Athens details.

A training session to introduce users to Bankscope will be held on May 11th at 10am in Lady Hale 202 – the training session will last for one hour. To book a place go to: http://www.library.salford.ac.uk/training/courses/ict/calendar.php.

Useful Law Resources Online

You have access to a variety of online law resources, covering legislation, case law and journal articles, which will provide examples of the law from a sociological perspective. The main resources, which are all available via the E-Library, are:

• Westlaw – provides next day case reporting, over 300,000 full-text case reports and transcripts dating back to the 1200s; consolidated legislation updated daily; a selection of online books; over 100 journals in full text; and national and international news and business updates.


• Lexis Library – provides coverage of over 500,000 cases with an archive back to the 1500s, including transcripts from specialist law reports, and with recent judgments and digests added daily; the full text of Halsbury’s Laws of England providing an authoritative guide to the law; consolidated legislation updated daily; a wide range of full text journals; and over 160 commentary titles.


• Lawtel – provides the full text of original statutes as enacted with a facility to trace commencements, amendments and repeals through Statutory Status Tables; extensive daily case law, both reported and unreported back to 1996; and a journals abstracting and indexing service (without full text).

For further information on law resources and how to access them, use the following guide: http://www.library.salford.ac.uk/help/userguides/subject/islaw.pdf

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Members of the University now have access to the Eighteenth Century Collections Online This collection has been purchased by JISC, and offers online access to to over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) and nearly 33 million pages published between 1701 and 1800. "ECCO Parts 1 and 2 include books and directories, Bibles, sheet music, sermons, advertisements, and works by many well-known and lesser-known authors. Most titles are in English, however scholars will also find material in French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian and Welsh. Included are works from women writers of the 18th Century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous editions of the works of Shakespeare. Multiple editions of each individual work are offered to enable scholars to make textual comparisons of the works. New material in ECCO Part 2 includes 96 new editions of Shakespeare and 900 new works and editions by over 400 female authors." JISC Collections Off-campus access to this resource is available using your Athens username and password. These can be found in the passwords file on your F: drive. Photo of Bath's Royal Crescent by Mark Turner

Potential delays to the British Library Document Supply service

The British Library stores some of its collections in storage buildings in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire.In common with many buildings built at the same time, asbestos was used in the construction of the Boston Spa site, and The British Library has a continuous programme of asbestos detection and removal. The major asbestos removal works currently planned are expected to last for much of 2011. Consequently, there could potentially be delays to some items ordered via our document supply system. However, to minimize the disruption caused by the temporary closure of some areas of The British Library Boston Spa site, we will seek to find an alternative source of supply for items identified as delayed, and we will update our requesters of any delay reported.

IBSS now available through e-library

The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is now available to the University. "This database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year." The IBSS can be accessed from off-campus with your Athens username & password, which can be found in the passwords file on your F: drive. You can also use this database on the new ProQuest platform. For further information about new electronic resources that are now available, please visit the e-library blog at: http://salfordelibnews.blogspot.com/2011/03/ibss-international-bibliography-of.html.